Someone once told me that when, say, Person A calls Person B stubborn, that just means that Person B refuses to do what Person A wants. I think that’s fair enough, but I also think that when I make my eighty-seven year-old grandmother walk fifty extra feet to a mall entrance, because I refuse to enter malls through department stores, or I insist on a seven-year-old admitting he was wrong (and I was right) about the rules of a particular board game before I continue to play with him, it wouldn’t be. . . unjust to characterize me as stubborn.